In response to the recent termination of Keith Fink from UCLA, David French argues that "academics have redefined and refocused disciplines to such an extent that they essentially exclude conservative inquiry." In National Review.
Columbia University professor John McWhorter recently spoke at the Aspen Institute, highlighting what he considers to be the underlying issues in academia.
On Intellectual Takeout.
Paul Griffiths explains that he resigned from Duke University because of his colleagues' lack of tolerance of opposing arguments and viewpoints. In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
UCLA will offer a new 5-credit course this fall semester about “spatial injustice.” The course will discuss the "production of unjust geographies and the spatial structures of privilege.” On Heat Street.
Organizations such as the National Association of Scholars are urging universities to shut down Chinese-sponsored Confucian Institutes on campus. On Minding the Campus.
Duke University is being sued by a graduate student who alleges that it "mishandled a rape allegation she reported." In the Duke Chronicle.
According a new Gallup poll, only 52 percent of Americans say they are proud of their country. This decline is most noticeable in the millennial generation. On Campus Reform.
On Saturday, UNC-Chapel Hill's seventh chancellor, Paul Hardin III, died at the age of 86. Hardin was a an advocate for civil rights and increased faculty diversity during his tenure. In the Daily Tar Heel.
Keith A. Fink, recently terminated from his position at UCLA, says that the university only "pays lip service to the notions of academic freedom and viewpoint diversity."
In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Colleges should not disregard the importance of curricular standards or "confuse intellectual exploration with the absence of structure," argues Michael B. Poliakoff.
On Inside Higher Ed.
